Schools as Thinking Communities

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By L. Green

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How to nurture thinking across the curriculum in every classroom, thus encouraging students to understand, manage and take responsibly for their own thinking and learning processes, and to value the perspectives of others. Aimed at teachers at all levels, curriculum designers, education planners, teacher educators and interested parents.Contents include the following:

  • Steps in the process of developing a thinking school
  • Challenges facing thinking schools
  • Sixteen characteristics of intelligent people
  • Introducing the Six Thinking Hats to students
  • Thinking Maps as a visual language for thinking
  • Mediation of goal-seeking, goal-setting and goal-achieving behaviour
  • Cooperative learning approaches and methods
  • The teaching and learning of life skills
  • Schools as Thinking Communities